Heart Of A Tiger: Growing Up with My Grandfather, Ty Cobb

Description

Ty Cobb is considered to be the greatest baseball player of all time. He had a reputation as the fiercest competitor of them all, but he realised that the qualities that made him successful also undermined his relationship with his children. Herschel Cobb's father was abusive, and his mother an adulterous alcoholic. After his father died, Herschel he began to spend a portion of each summer with his grandfather Ty. Heart of a Tiger is Herschel's moving account of how Ty Cobb seized a second chance at having a close family and finally to peace with himself.

Herschel Cobb is the grandson of Ty Cobb. He lives in Menlo Park, California.

"A personal memoir can enrich the statistical account, as does this one about the great Ty Cobb. Readers should find justice has been done to the Georgia Peach." -- Ron Kirbyson, the Winnipeg Free Press "Actions sometimes speak louder than words. But Herschel Cobb's words speak volumes on why The Georgia Peach just might have always been a peach of a man that no one could find out, unless you were kinfolk and not a prying member of the media like Al Stump trying to fulfill an assignment." -- Tom Hoffarth, Farther Off the Wall "Elegantly written and genuinely moving, this heartwarming account is sure to resonate with readers." -- Publishers Weekly "I could rave about this book for hours and I feel I would still never do it justice. It's a book that hooks the reader from the very beginning and in spite of the sometimes difficult content, keeps you hanging on until the very end." -- Charlene Martel, The Literary Word "Not your grandfather's Ty Cobb? Perhaps not. But Ty Cobb was Herschel Cobb's grandfather. And the story Herschel Cobb tells reveals a far gentler side to his grandfather, one buried deep beneath the persona Ty Cobb created during his playing days. Heart of a Tiger: Growing up with My Grandfather, Ty Cob is a warm, sentimental memoir. Herschel Cobb is not trying to write a revisionist history of his grandfather; he is merely retelling the memories he had of 'Granddaddy, ' never realizing until he was a teenager that Ty Cobb was a famous -- and sometimes polarizing -- baseball player." -- Bob D'Angelo, Tampa Tribune